Alert archive / North Carolina
Extreme Cold Watches in North Carolina
15 extreme cold watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 15
- Busiest year
- 202610 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 8over 2 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alleghany County4
- Ashe County4
- Watauga County4
- Avery County3
- Haywood County3
- Jackson County3
- Madison County3
- Mitchell County3
- Swain County3
- Yancey County3
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Buncombe County2
- Columbus County2
- Graham County2
- Henderson County2
- Macon County2
- New Hanover County2
- Pender County2
- Robeson County2
- Transylvania County2
- Beaufort County2
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Carteret County2
- Chowan County2
- Craven County2
- Currituck County2
- Dare County2
- Duplin County2
- Gates County2
- Greene County2
- Hertford County2
- Hyde County2
- Jones County2
- Lenoir County2
- Martin County2
- Northampton County2
- Onslow County2
- Pamlico County2
60 more counties
- Pasquotank County2
- Perquimans County2
- Pitt County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Washington County2
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Alamance County1
- Alexander County1
- Anson County1
- Burke County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caldwell County1
- Caswell County1
- Catawba County1
- Chatham County1
- Cleveland County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Durham County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Forsyth County1
- Franklin County1
- Gaston County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Halifax County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Iredell County1
- Johnston County1
- Lee County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Nash County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Polk County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockingham County1
- Rowan County1
- Rutherford County1
- Sampson County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Union County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilkes County1
- Wilson County1
- Yadkin County1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2:23 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:49 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:49 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more | 35 hr |
| Jan 29, 1:13 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 29, 1:03 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 26 hr |
| Jan 29, 12:41 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 37 hr |
| Jan 29, 12:31 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 23 hr |
| Jan 29, 10:35 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 25 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:04 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 12 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:47 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | GSP | Avery, Haywood, Jackson, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more | 14 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.